The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-20

1&ta0aSSee fiTc NOllAdtllcS URN Ut NlIQL.
Rev. y A. Barnett is now located at Mad
iSon.
The name of a Live Oak merchant is B.
Small.
The jetties at Volusia bar have been COM
| pleted,
Tallahasseans are still feasting on straw
berries.
Peaches are selling for s. per bushel in
Gainesville.
Monroe county poll tax goes to the county
school fund.
a new Presbyterian church is being built
at TituSville.
Ex-Gov. Stearns is improving his prop
erty at Quincy.
The demand for houses at Longwoodex-
cceds the supply.
The Episcopal church at Tallahassee is
soon to be enclosed with an iron fence.
Probably the building of the railroad bed
from brownsville to Monticello will be COM
menced early in July.
A correspondent of the Jacksonville
Herald writes from Titusville of ''horsefies
aud blind mosquitoes by the thousands"
Henry Mcbride, of Melbourne, has ripe
lemons on a tree that sprang up from the
root of tree only seventeen months old
Thirty bushels of corn per acre is reported
from Geneva, Orange county, on high
hummock land without on ounce of fertih-
ger.
One hundred and fifty hands are at work
on the Tavares, Atlantic and Gulf railway
at Oakland. The head men say construction
| trains will be running into Oakland within
| six weeks.
| It is estimated that 10000 crates of vege
| tables and six carloads of melons have been
| shipped this season from Crown Point sta
| tlon which at this time last year was not
| in existence
On Tuesday night last a difficulty oc-
| CURED at the Occidental saloon at Tampa
| between W. c. Campbell and NJ. NJ Mel
son. During the melee Nelson's son struck
| Campbell on the head with a billiard cue,
| INJECTING a bad wound.
Glass Blocker, colored employe of Buoxi
| Il Son, of Ellaville, had his hand caught
and badly lacerated in the edger recently.
| He viii lose the use of his fingers even if
| amputation is not necessary. He has been
| put on half pay until he can return to work
| Leesburg seems to have as good a chance
for the new county site as any place IN the
new county. Galaha has come out as full
| Hedged candidate for the court house honors,
and if precinct No. l could be made to see
| as Galaha does, she would be the new county
| site.
| Soundings have been taken for the rail-
| road bridge at Tampa The greatest depth
at which rock was struck was 1915 feet and
| the shoalest Z II will cross the river lust
| north of the Bartholomew place, and a
switch will be run ipto the main track south
of the Tampa ice factory.
Tampa Tribune: Some of our citizens, in
| a spirit of mischief, start reports of cases of
| yellow fever occurring in the town. or of
some one from Key West running the block
AIDE and being in town, and these reports are
repeated and gather as repeated, and get
tals 4 4
very wrong, and if not stopped the town
| Council should find some way to punish the
parties
A novel wedding took place Friday af-
telnoon Just after the arrival of the Olivette,
| off Key West. A young man from Phila-
| delphia came to marry a Key West girl
| The friends and minister went out ON the
| schooner that lighters passengers, and
| through some hitch the two anxious ones
| could not come together, so they were
! spllced, she on the schooner and he on the
| 0livette.
The contribution to the Orlando Presby-
! terrain church fund have reached about So
! 500, and a lot, just east of Berry's wagon
| shop, in that city, has been purchased The
| dimensions of the new lot are $50 by 1877
| feet, and the location is a good one, though
| hardly SO pretty as the old one. As soon as
| the old lot is sold plans will be drawn for
the new church. 1t is to be of brick, and
viii cost $4,000
Mr.. Sam Smoke, son of Dr. and Mrs. S.
! y. Smoke, of AIicanopy, graduated with
| honors from West Point Military Academy
and received his diploma last Friday The
/ young Lieutenant viii be home in july on a
| visit, after which he will report for duty in
| the United States army Sam was formerly
a student in East Florida Seminary and has
great many friends in Gainesville, all of
whom feel great interest and pride in him.
w. S. Webb is here interviewing the bust
| ness men of the State relative to the part
| they will take in the proposed exhibit of
FLORIDA on Wheels" His car is i'll process
of construction, and will be ready for the
| road about Sept. | next, when he proposes
| to set out with it on IA tour of the North, ar
! ranging his route so as to catch the leading
| State fairs where the Florida exhibit will
present the leading attraction. As an adj
! vertiselnent of the State it will be unrivaled.
The Gainesville colored picked nine were
badly beaten i'll game of base ball WedneS-
day afternoon ut the grounds i'll West
! Gainesville by the Felnandina nine The
| Fernandina boys are well disciplined and
| play good amateur game of ball, while the
home nine are badly in need of practice and
a good captain The game stood Fernan-
! dina 30. Gainesville q. Perfect order was
maintained throughout the entire game.
which was witnessed by about 500 specta-
tors.
Andrew Aulin, of Oviedo, is reported as
having a field OF corn, growing upon re-
claimed bay land, which is equal to the best
western corn crop. One gentleman claims
that it will yield at the rate OF l25 bushels
TO the acre. This is an immense yield. If
it does one-half that it win be good enough.
! Mr. Aulin has twenty acres of this kind of
| land, and his success encourages him to
bring the whole into cultivation, and plant
il in corn. He raised an early crop of Irish
potatoes on this land before planting it in
| corn.
Lake Weir Independent: We are re liably
informed that the Florida Southern rail
| road has made the people of Lake Weir the
| proposition to furnish the iron and 81 900
| If we will raise the balance necessary TO
build a spur right up 70 the Chautauqua
grounds from any point desired on their
! present line. March right up to the sub
scription list and do the part of man.
| Judge Benson has all the papers in apple
| pie ORDER and has linibered his tongue
he will make all needed explanations. We
are authorized TO announce that as soon as
! this road is built new hotel of 100 rooms
will he erected on the Bullock lot
Maj. Conant of the Florida Southern.